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Combat Map - Turn 5

Monday, April 30, 2012

This small stone chamber mirrors the one you arrived in on this floor of the Spike. An iron spiral staircase leads upward. Two staircases descend from the eastern wall, one attached to the northern wall and the other to the southern. At the top of each stairway is a stone door with a heavy iron bar across it. The space between the two flights forms a passage that ends in the secret door.

Gray is the room and catwalk floors.Light gray is the passage and pit floors.White rectangles are doors.Dashed white rectangles are secret doors.Vertical lines are stairs.Dark gray pie shapes are spiral stairs.

Gray is the room and catwalk floors.Light gray is the passage and pit floors.White rectangles are doors.Dashed white rectangles are secret doors.Vertical lines are stairs.Dark gray pie shape is spiral stairs.

Closing the first door and motioning the party to continue waiting, Clint sneaked ahead to the next branch of the passage. The rogue discovered another secret door designed to open into the passage. The door did not appear locked or trapped. Like the last door, Clint opened the new one slightly to see what was on the other side.

A mirror to the northern pit, the southern pit is full of skeletons and bones, some of which rattle and twitch.

Clint motioned the party to stay where they were. The rogue finished examining the secret door. He found no traps so he opened it slightly to peer within.

The stench of death pours through the door when opened. Heaps of bodies and body parts form an obscene landscape on the floor of this enormous pit, some jerking spasmodically and moaning. A lip or catwalk, 20 feet above, hangs over the pit and looks to continue around the perimeter of the pit. The overhang looks to be carved from the surrounding walls without any support from below. The ceiling appears to be 10 feet further above the surface of the catwalk. The room above appears to open to the south as well but details cannot be determined from the current vantage.

The rest of the party waited while Clint moved forward and examined the opening to his right. It terminated in a dead end. The rogue searched the area and found a secret door. It did not appear locked or trapped and appeared to open into the hallway.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

This small stone chamber is an almost perfect cube. Other
than the spiral stairs down, two staircases ascend on the west side of the
room, one attached to the northern wall and the other to the southern. At the
top of each stairway is a stone door with a heavy iron bar across it. The space
between the two flights form a sort of passage, but that way ends in a bare
wall.

Clint listened at the secret door and heard nothing beyond.
The rogue opened the door and began to examine the spiral stairs once more. The
trap was still there and active. The elf located the ward rune and disabled the
magical trap.

Dargoth made sure the doors were closed and then moved back
to the kitchen. Banjo drank and antitoxin. Mr. Wolfe waited patiently by the
sorcerer. Kirlic moved to the kitchen to regroup with the party. Thurstan
Channeled positive energy and healed himself and Dargoth to full and removed 13
damage from Kirlic. Clint stated his intentions to leave spiders well enough
alone and moved to the secret door and began to listen as Banjo berated him.

At the cry to retreat, Dargoth exited the room through the door to his right with his torch in hand. The fighter made his way along the hallway toward the kitchen. Clint eyed the door to his left and decided to wait for the rest of the party to exit before him. Banjo cast a Haste spell and retreated back to the kitchen through the door to his left.

The fiendish spider swarm moved forward to cover Thurstan and Kirlic. The little monsters used their collective smite good and dealt 3 damage to Thurstan and 7 damage to Kirlic. The cleric and the ranger were able to resist the poison administers through the bites.

Mr. Wolfe retreated to the kitchen through the door to his left. The Bone spider golem flicked its legs and unleashed a volley of spikes into the room. The attack hit Thurstan for 7 damage and scored a critical hit on Kirlic for 22 damage. Both suffered a weaking to their ability to resist poison. Clint was missed.

Kirlic exited the room through the door to the right. The ranger stopped to close the door behind him. Thurstan exited through the door behind him. The cleric too stopped and closed the door. Clint exited through the door to the left. The rogue also stopped to close the door.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Normally I do not post the initiative order during the surprise
round or the first round of combat because I believe that it will slow down the
turn submission process. That being said, it appears that this turn has gotten
messy and could use a bit of a nudge in the direction of motion. As an
exception I have provided the initiative order and some clarifying points.

- Minor fire resistance and Spell resistance
- Takes damage from holy water
- Immune to weapon damage
- Not subject to critical hits or flanking.
- Immune to any spell or effect that targets a specific number of creatures
- Takes half again as much damage (+50%) from spells or effects that affect an
area, such as splash weapons and many evocation spells

Bone Spider Golem

- No specifics are known about this type of golem
- Generally speaking, golems are tough and immune to many types of spells and
effects